Primary Convener:
Nicholas O'Mara, Yale University

Convener:
A Karp, University of Chicago
Richard Vachula, Auburn University

Early Career Convener:
Andrea Mason, Brown University

Chair:
Nicholas O'Mara, Brown University
A Karp, Yale University
Richard Vachula, Auburn University
Andrea Mason, Brown University

Wildfire has evolved as part of the Earth System since the Silurian and interacts with the atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, and geosphere via complex and ever-changing relationships. The impacts of recent extreme wildfires and the predicted effects of climate change have together sparked greater interest in the drivers and controls of fire. Paleofire and historical records offer context with which we can assess the magnitude of observed burning, infer fire-human-climate relationships, and predict the impact of fire on ecosystem dynamics. Further comparisons of empirical data with climate and fire models provide additional perspective on past, current, and future wildfire drivers, behavior, and impacts. We encourage abstracts that seek to understand the history, controls, and impacts of fire across all temporal and spatial scales, using all archives, proxies, methodologies, and statistical analyses. We also welcome fire proxy developments, calibrations, and multi-proxy comparisons as well as paleofire modeling and proxy-model comparisons.

Index Terms
0473 Paleoclimatology and paleoceanography
1632 Land cover change
4914 Continental climate records
4950 Paleoecology

GeoBurst Sessions:
Yes

Cross-Listed:
B - Biogeosciences
GC - Global Environmental Change

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering